There will be no Cinderellas in the women's basketball NCAA Tournament this year. Of the teams who advanced to the Sweet Sixteen earlier this week, none received higher than a six seed from the selection committee. And while this credits the job well done from the powers that be, it has made for a fairly uneventful first two rounds.
After talking with Ben Mezrich and Jeff Ma, the Daily got a chance to interview the star of "21," Jim Sturgess, as he recalled the energetic feel on the set, the crazy math of card counting, and his compatibility with fellow actors.
Tufts Students for the Improvement of Residential Life, a group of undergraduates lobbying for the improvement of campus dormitories, released a report evaluating dorm common areas on Monday.
With room and board provided and an abundance of opportunities for working on-campus, Jumbos would seem to be mostly sheltered from larger problems within the economy.
The Democratic nomination battle is over in all but name. Indeed, most knowledgeable political observers quietly came to that conclusion back in late February, when Clinton lost 11 contests in a row. It's a question of math, and there is simply no way to make Obama's 1,408 pledged delegates less than Clinton's 1,251. There is no remotely likely scenario that even would bring Clinton within 100 delegates of Obama.
Countless video games offer players the opportunity to do battle with demonic hell-spawn, but few do it as stylishly as Capcom's "Devil May Cry" series. Since its inception on the PlayStation 2 in 2001, the "DMC" franchise has been a favorite of gamers in search of intense, engaging action titles. The recently released fourth installment follows the formula of its predecessors perhaps too closely. But despite the flaws that result, the game continues to offer a challenging and entertaining experience.
When the Amherst men's basketball team took the floor to take on Washington University in St. Louis at the Salem Civic Center Saturday, there was more at stake than just a national championship.
This article is the second in a two-part series examining students who opt to defer admission to college to take a year off. The first installment examined the increasing popularity of the "gap year;" the second will take a look at the personal experiences of students who have taken a year off before college.
Tufts' former Muslim Chaplain Noureddine Hawat says that he was forced to resign against his will last spring and that Tufts owes him thousands of dollars for campus renovations he helped fund. He plans to sue the university.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has finalized the teams for next month's Dance Marathon, and is in the midst of final preparations.
Harvard professor David Cutler discussed his book, "Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System," last night, which argues that the U.S. health-care companies could charge less money for the benefits they provide.
During finals week at Brown University last December, sophomore Grant Gilles moved into the campus' 24-hour study center, the Sciences Library. Gilles did not actually camp out in the library to diligently cram for exams - he was trying to win a talent competition offering the winner a prime choice of housing.
As I returned to campus from spring break, I overheard some middle-aged pundits discussing the election campaigns.
A monumental black box, imposing and quiet, fills the view of the audience. A disembodied Voice speaks in the stillness meditating on the box. Later, a Communist dictator reads propaganda while a long-winded lady gives confession to a silent minister perched languorously on a ledge, and an old woman recounts to the audience, in maudlin verse, how her children abandoned her one by one. This is "Box Mao Box," a free production playing tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Aidekman Arts Center's Remis Sculpture Court.
Following another narrow loss to a beatable opponent in Brandeis on March 14, the men's tennis team bounced back to post consecutive victories over MIT, Stevens Tech and NESCAC opponent Hamilton to advance its record to 3-2 in the spring, 5-2 overall.
By the end of the 2006-07 season, it was clear that the women's basketball team had turned a corner.
Five years ago, members of the American armed forces first stepped onto Iraqi soil to begin a war originally intended to ward off potential terrorist attacks and to find hidden weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, 4,000 American troops have died with over 29,000 wounded, nearly 90,000 documented Iraqi civilian deaths and 300 other deaths from the countries that originally came to America's aid - many of which have now left the area.
We hope this past break didn't find you sitting in a terminal with a two-going-on-six hour delay.
